Omaha police officers dove into a cold lake Sunday and rescued two people and their dog when a boat capsized Sunday, reported KETV-TV.

"I had went down and sucked in a full breath of water and already accepted I was gone and felt the officer grab me under the arm," Nathan Nelson said.

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By the time rescue crews arrived, five officers had pulled a woman, her adult son and a dog to shore.

"More than likely, those two people and their dog would have perished if it wasn't for the quick thinking of Officer Murphy and the four other officers," Lt. Mark Matuza said.

A sergeant on scene said the two may have died had it not been for the first officer who saw what happened and immediately helped.

Omaha Fire Battalion Chif Rob McEvoy said Kay Dunn, 55, and her son, Nelson, 32, overturned in their boat Sunday. At the same time, Officer Kelly Murphy drove by during her normal patrol.

Murphy radioed for help, then dove in the lake.

Even with Sunday's weather in the 50s, firefighters say hypothermia can set in very quickly. Also, none of the people in the boat were wearing life jackets.

Four other Omaha police officers, Mark Kiley, Bryant Wheatley, Jake Bettin and Nick Andrews, soon responded and helped bring both people and the dog to shore.

"I was talking to God, hoping that my family would be OK, and that my dog and my mother made it. I had already accepted that I wasn't," Nelson said.

Medics took both boaters and one officer to the hospital to be checked for hypothermia. In total, most of the people involved were in the water for approximately 20 minutes.

"It doesn't take very long for hypothermia to set in especially, even when they got out of the water, their clothes were all wet," said McEvoy. "The biggest priority was to get them out of the wet clothes, get towels and blankets, got them into the back of the medic units to get them out of this outside temperature."

Their dog, Buster, was taken to the Nebraska Humane Society to get checked out.